Poppy-Elm Decoction

Formula for Calming Convulsions and Treating Red Patches，From *Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 371.，For chronic convulsions.

Shenhe Powder，From *Formulas Recorded in History*, Volume 1.，Abdominal pain caused by an excess of dampness. Symptoms include abdominal distension and pain, loss of appetite, weight gain, weakness in the limbs, rumbling in the abdomen, and loose stools.

San Si Decoction，From *Records of Differentiation of Syndromes*, Volume 8.，Buddhist nuns, widows, unmarried women, and wives or concubines whose husbands have been away for a long time and have not returned—suffering from pent-up longing and emotional distress, yearning for a man but unable to find one—experience a silent rise of internal heat that dries up … Read more

Four Substances Decoction with Sunflower Seeds，Formula from *Yuanrong*; name cited in *Jiyin Gangmu*, vol.，Scanty and scanty menstrual flow.

Heart-Calming Pills，From *Shi Yuan Duan Xiao Fang*, citing a formula by Li Daojing (see *Yi Fang Lei Ju*, vol. 160).，For restlessness of the mind, mania, agitation, delirium, and confusion.

Tiao Feng Powder，From *Yi Tong*, Volume 61.，For wind-toxin attacking the eyes, causing redness, swelling, itching, and pain.

Harmonizing Four Substances Decoction，From *Lu Fu Jin Fang*, Volume 3.，For common cold and flu, with fatigue in the limbs, dizziness and headache, and fever.

Formula for Relieving Muscle Tension and Inducing Sweating，From *Shenghui*, Volume 10.，For cases of typhoid fever where the heat toxin has not yet been resolved, with signs of impending pea-sized rashes, accompanied by fever and pain.

Decoction for Resolving Phlegm and Eliminating Accumulations，From *Dian Dian Jing*, Volume 2.，Alcohol damages the kidneys, causing mania akin to madness, loss of consciousness, or alternating episodes of madness and death, or persistent unconsciousness.

Gua Shi Decoction，*Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 8.，For tetanus with fever.

Paper-Coated Ointment，Formula by Wu Danyuan, cited in Volume 25 of *The Comprehensive Treatise on the Treatment of Ulcers*.，For wandering damp-toxin.

Uncaria Bark Decoction，*Pu Ji Fang*, Volume 100.，Pediatric Epilepsy.

Jiegu Pill，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 140.，If the arrowhead does not come out:

Modified Heart-Clearing Lotus Seed Decoction，*Gu’s Medical Pathways*, Volume 4.，Leucorrhea. Caused by restless heart fire transmitting heat to the spleen, resulting in damp-heat in the spleen that steams and stagnates, transforming into fire and manifesting as red leucorrhea.

Major Fangfeng Decoction，From *Bai Yi*, Volume 3.，If, after suffering from dysentery, one experiences leg pain and weakness, rendering one unable to walk, it is called “dysentery wind”; or if both knees are swollen and painful, with the thighs and shins withered and dry like wax, leaving only skin and bone, accompanied by stiffness and an … Read more

Eight Li Powder，From *Formulas of the Huizhitiang Hall*, Volume 3.，For contusions; also treats festering sores and toxic swellings.

Cicada Shedding Powder，From *Essentials of Medical Literature* (Yilin Cuanyao), Volume 9.，For night crying caused by wind-heat.

Five-Seed and Tangerine Peel Decoction，*Revised Popular Treatise on Cold Damage*.，Constipation due to physical weakness.

Tonifying and Draining Pills，*Selected Essentials of Surgical Treatises*, Volume 4.，Wind in the kidneys manifests as a white discoloration between the fingers.

Ephedra, Cinnamon Twig, and Cimicifuga Decoction，From *The Secret Treasury of the Orchid Chamber*, Middle Volume.，A woman first suffered from numbness throughout her body, which slightly subsided when she slept but ceased entirely upon waking; after the condition had resolved, she again experienced pain in all her joints due to mental distress, accompanied by a heavy … Read more

Huangliang Pills，From *Shenghui*, cited in *Pujifang*, Volume 352.，For postpartum cases where physical exertion has caused irregular menstrual flow and disharmony in the meridians, as well as for women and young maidens who have suffered from irregular menstruation for years.

Black Lead Pill，*Eight Notes on Nurturing Life*, Volume 18.，

Red Ocher and Gan Sui Decoction to Attack Masses，From *A Synthesis of Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.，Due to overeating, excessive consumption of raw or cold foods, the congealing of cold and fire, or prolonged vomiting, both stomach qi and rising qi rebel upward and fail to descend; undigested food accumulates in the intestines and … Read more

Deer Blood Pills，From *Yifang Leiju*, Volume 150, citing *Xu Jisheng*.，For various deficiencies and debility, where both essence and blood are depleted; blood deficiency fails to nourish the tendons, and essence deficiency fails to strengthen the bones; resulting in atrophy and weakness of tendons and bones, a sallow and dark complexion, tinnitus and shortness of breath, … Read more

Malaria-Eradicating Medicinal Jujubes，From *Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 3.，Malaria.